Richard Cockerill

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Richard Cockerill
Rugby union career

Full name	Richard Cockerill
Date of birth	(1970-12-16) 16 December 1970
Place of birth	Rugby, Warwickshire
Height	1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Weight	108 kg (17 st 0 lb)
School	Harris Church of England School
Occupation(s)	Director of Rugby
Playing career
Position	Hooker
Professional / senior clubs
Years	Club / team	Caps	(points)
1992–2002 2002–2004 2004–2005	Leicester Montferrand Leicester	224 5	60 0
National team(s)
Years	Club / team	Caps	(points)
1997–1999	England	27	15
Coaching career
Years	Club / team
2005 –	Leicester Tigers
Rugby union career

Richard Cockerill (born 16 December 1970) is a former English rugby union footballer who played as a hooker.

Cockerill was born in Rugby. Joining Leicester Tigers, he established himself as the B of the "ABC club" alongside Graham Rowntree (A) and Darren Garforth (C).

He made his England debut against Argentina in 1997 and later his first match at Twickenham was as a half-time replacement for the Bath hooker Andy Long in Clive Woodward's first match in charge against the Wallabies; Long was young and clearly out of his depth. Cockerill's performance earned him a starting place against New Zealand, where he stood up to Norm Hewitt during the haka (see book cover).

A dip in form led him to lose his first choice hooking position at Leicester to Dorian West. He was also dropped from the England side after criticising Woodward in his book entitled In Your Face. He subsequently moved to France, but signed again for Leicester for the 2004–5 season.

In 2005 he was appointed forwards coach at Leicester Tigers succeeding John Wells.^[1]

Cockerill served as acting head coach of Leicester Tigers in the early part of the 2007–08 season before Marcelo Loffreda arrived from Argentina in the wake of the Pumas' third-place finish in the 2007 Rugby World Cup. He also took over as acting head coach in February 2009 after Heyneke Meyer resigned due to family reasons. On 17 April 2009, Cockerill was confirmed in the head coach role.^[2] On 16 May he guided Leicester to win the Guinness Premiership with a 10–9 win over London Irish in the final.^[3] A week later they lost in the final of the Heineken cup to Leinster by 19 points to 16 in Edinburgh.^[4]

Bibliography

Richard Cockerill (with Michael Tanner as a ghost writer) In Your Face: A Rugby Odyssey ISBN 1-84018-266-0

References

↑ Forwards coach Cockerill won't change
↑ Sherrard, Gary (17 April 2009). "Leicester Tigers confirm Richard Cockerill appointment". Leicester Tigers. Retrieved 2009-04-17.
↑ "Leicester 10–9 London Irish". BBC Sport. 2009-05-16. Retrieved 2009-05-27.
↑ "Leicester 16–19 Leinster". BBC Sport. 2009-05-23. Retrieved 2009-05-27.

External links

v t e Leicester Tigers squad

Forwards	Ayerza Brookes Castrogiovanni Chuter Cole Crane Croft de Carpentier Deacon Hawkins Kitchener Mafi Mulipola Newby Parling Salvi Slater Stankovich Waldrom T. Youngs

Backs	Allen Benjamin Bowden Flood Ford Goneva Hamilton Harrison Morris Murphy Smith Tait Thompstone M. Tuilagi Williams Young B. Youngs

Coach	Cockerill

v t e England squad – 1999 Rugby World Cup

Forwards	Archer Back Cockerill Corry Dallaglio Garforth Greening Hill Johnson (c) Leonard McCarthy Grewcock Rodber Rowntree Ubogu Vickery Worsley

Backs	Beal Bracken Catt Dawson De Glanville Grayson Greenwood Guscott Healey Luger Perry Rees Wilkinson

Coach	Woodward

Authority control	VIAF: 51527290

Persondata
Name	Cockerill, Richard
Alternative names
Short description	English rugby union player
Date of birth	16 December 1970
Place of birth	Rugby, Warwickshire
Date of death
Place of death

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